Politics, music, cities, food, Spain, @ The Guardian, Observer, VICE, LRB, NYT. Co-host @CursedObjectsUK. New book: MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World
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I’ve curated many exhibitions but never thought I would be in one..!
Congrats to @KasiaTee & @danhancox for their @CursedObjectsUK exhibition about museum shops at the @peltzgallery. Some of the museum pens which I’ve been collecting since I was a child are featured. Go see it!
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Echoing @Jodi7768 recommendation to buy @danhancox superb new book exploring how the popular perception of crowds being inherently violent is based on 19th-century pseudoscience and why elites are terrified of mass social movements, which I reviewed for @BooksinFive below!
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Drawing inspiration from Dan Hancox in Multitudes, we see that isolation isn’t a bug — it’s a deliberate design to control us. The forces that profit from our atomization have long underestimated the power of collective celebration. #ResistAtomization
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"I Believe in the Eternal Life of Carnival" isn’t just a statement — it’s a manifesto. In times of crisis and isolation, joy becomes a radical act of resistance. #CarnivalSpirit #CollectiveJoy
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Cannot recommend this new @VersoBooks book by @danhancox highly enough.
There is something fascinating on every page. I have been wearily, bitterly jealous of Dan’s excellent journalism for years and this has only added to that
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Really looking forward to chatting with @danhancox about his latest book at @vocebooks on Tuesday! Come along, tix are only £3.
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Birds are very cautiously singing outside and the new Tribune is out, burnished with one of the all-time classic covers. I reviewed @danhancox’s excellent Multitudes for it
Our latest issue, ‘Gastropolitics’, is out now.
From English food riots to Polish socialist milk bars and farmers’ uprisings in India, read Alex Niven, Juliet Jacques, Owen Hatherley and Fran Newton.
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A great discussion of @danhancox's new book 'Multitudes' on @Sobremesacast here
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"The nameless oppressed are who Benjamin wanted us to honour: the many tens of thousands of civilians killed in Gaza and in Sudan. The many more who have died trying to cross the Mediterranean, or beneath the crenellations of Fortress Europe" @danhancox
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Magnificent piece by @danhancox in @ft on Walter Benjamin
“It is more difficult to honour the memory of the anonymous than that of the renowned. Historical construction is devoted to the memory of the anonymous.”
There is still work to be done!
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Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World by @danhancox -
“Champions the erotic, capitalism-subverting, ego-transcending crowd against those who...have striven to batter the life out of it.” – Stuart Jeffries
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Belatedly caught up with @danhancox’s excellent piece on the last days of Walter Benjamin on.ft.com/3Ce8TSE
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Dan Hancox (@danhancox):
'The last days of Walter Benjamin'
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“Don’t dig up our painful past,” cry the political descendants of Franco’s regime. Benjamin argued that was not just the morally correct thing, but the historically necessary thing to do.
Great piece by @danhancox on rememberance, Benjamin's work & death
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Love this by @danhancox on Walter Benjamin’s unlucky death, the mystery of his black briefcase, and what his final piece of work teaches us about the world we live in now. on.ft.com/40rAeKA
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"Those who've lost their lives are victims of Fortress Europe’s brutal border regime, which, in the name of disincentivizing travel by migrants & refugees from the Global South, forces them to expose themselves to ever greater mortal dangers." My latest: jacobin.com/2025/01/canary-i…
According to data from @walkingborders 10,457 people died at Spain's borders in 2024. The EU’s crackdown on Mediterranean crossings has diverted migrants toward the even more perilous Atlantic route, turning the ocean into a mass grave. My latest @jacobin
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We need more spontaneous, joyful social happenings like this to jolt us out of whatever sociopathic fugue we’ve been in since the pandemic
A massive snowball fights involving hundreds if not thousands of DC residents has erupted in Meridian Hill Park. I took a few photos and snowballs to the face. @dcsnowball
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8th day @Phil_Football Christmas reads perfect for morning after New Years Eve. Convivial & political often alien to one another but good or bad when coalesce crowd becomes movement. A book that lands in place much richer than Planet Placard philosophyfootball.com/news.…
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